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death May Sinclair
She was cremated after her funeral on 18 November at the chapel in Golders Green Cemetery. Her ashes were buried in Hampstead churchyard.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.
155
In a will made almost thirty years before she died...
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Gerard
Scholar Elizabeth Miller discovered that Bram Stoker 's own notes identify EG 's Transylvanian Superstitions as a significant source for Dracula.
Miller, Elizabeth, and Isobel Grundy. Email about Emily Gerard to Isobel Grundy. 23 Aug. 2003.
Copies of the Nineteenth Century essay and The Land Beyond the Forest which...
Literary responses Charlotte Yonge
E. M. Delafield writes that during the 1940s CY retained wide popularity: that the London Library 's copies of her books were often checked out by readers, and that when Delafield wrote to the Times...
Material Conditions of Writing Pamela Frankau
This, she said, was a commission she could not turn down since as usual she needed the money. She found the research assignment alarming, and spent long, unhappy days at the London Library .
Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann, 1961.
118
Material Conditions of Writing Dorothy Wellesley
DW 's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie , Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie...
Material Conditions of Writing Julia Strachey
Frances Partridge observes that Strachey began to write these memoirs [q]uite late in her life, probably in her sixties.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983.
12
She worked at them in the London Library , and with the assistance of typists...
Material Conditions of Writing Marie Belloc Lowndes
She planned but never completed a biography of the eighteenth-century French letter-writer Julie de Lespinasse . In May 1940 she was researching in the London Library for this book.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
199
Material Conditions of Writing Penelope Fitzgerald
It took PF two years, working in the London Library , to translate into English the actual correspondence of Novalis.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Occupation Virginia Woolf
VW refused E. M. Forster 's request for permission to nominate her to the Committee of the London Library , because of the library's policy against women members (a policy instituted by her father, Leslie Stephen ).
Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1972, 2 vols.
2: 224
Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan, 1989.
216
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
663
Occupation Marina Warner
MW has given her time in many public capacities. She was a  Member of the Advisory Board of the Royal Mint (1986-1993); a Member of the Committee of Management of the National Council for One-Parent Families
Occupation George Meredith
GM received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature . In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson as president of...
Reception Sarah Grand
At her death, SG left all her manuscripts, copyrights, and published works to her step-granddaughter, Elizabeth Genevieve Bernadine Crawford Haldane McFall , daughter of Haldane McFall .
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983.
334-5, 100
Her letters and papers are now...
Reception Isabella Bird
This is one of the books that Bram Stoker drew on for writing Dracula.The copy he used and annotated is now in the London Library .
“Latest News, The Books that Made Dracula”. The London Library, 26 Oct. 2018.
Textual Production Violet Hunt
VH kept diaries between 1876 and 1939.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
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Often writing in French, she used her diaries to record and explain her perceptions of daily events and experiences; her entries are sometimes rooted in fact but...
Textual Production Mary Ann Kelty
MAK dated the preface to her volume of essays Loneliness and Leisure: A Record of the Thoughts and Feelings of Advanced Life, called after the motives that caused her to write on in her...

Timeline

3 May 1841: The London Library, established by Thomas...

National or international item

3 May 1841

The London Library , established by Thomas Carlyle with Harriet Martineau , Dickens , Thackeray , and others, first opened its doors.
The London Library. http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk.
“OSA Staff”. Oxford Spires Academy.
“Members’ News”. The Author, No. 29, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2015, p. 31.

May 1978: Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern...

Women writers item

May 1978

Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.
Callil, Carmen. “The stories of our lives”. Guardian Unlimited, 26 Apr. 2008.

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